About internet identities

This is some of my thoughts about internet identity. I'm the kind of person who hates internet nicknames like Sephiroth66, or Naruto1337. Those are unoriginal and in most of popular internet services there are bunch of different Sephiroths. I can understand if someone takes a characters name because they like the name, but "Let's take the most bad-ass character in anime/video games name and we are cool" -thinking is stupid and it results a swarm of narutos, sephiroths and dantes running around internet.

I'm also that kind of person who wants to use same nick in every place because I want that if someone knows me as a Xyz in one place he will know me as a Xyz in every other place too.

My few first internet nicks I used were pretty awful but even they were original. But my mostly usen internet nickname came from a friend who mentioned something about Apsu, well he was talking about something abut Apsu. I liked that as a name and it felt similar to my real name, although only thing common whit it is same letter at beginning. From that on I started to use it as my internet identity and it was time when I started to really dig deeper in to the land of internet.

After some time Apsuing I notices that there are many places where name Apsu is taken and I had to come up something else and like I said I like to keep my nick same in every place. So because I didn't want to go with different nick I had to do some minor chance to Apsu. The one I started to use the most was Apsu-P or later Apsup I basically added the first letter of my familyname to that so it was kind of Apsu P.

It wasn't until just resiliently when I thought about what if I dump Apsu totally and start use Apsup as my primary nick, because that would get me over with problem of Apsu. I had thought about going from Apsu to something totally else, but I didn't want to throw away that internet identity that I had internalized. Also there was the thing that I was Apsu in every place possible. But when I thought about Apsup I realised that even tough it doesn't sound as good as Apsup it would still be similar enough, also at the moment there isn't so many places in internet where I am active and couldn't chance my nick. So I desisted to try it. I went and changed every Apsu to Apsup that I could.

I still feels a little weird and I don't feel that Apsup is as deep in me as Apsu was, but maybe it will come with time. Only thing I really miss that I can't use the wordplay Apsu-rd anymore. But that isn't so big loss for that I can now go in almost any place in internet and know that Apsup won't be taken.